Tackling a shared USB printer (linux -> WXP)

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Tue May 4 13:31:50 UTC 2004


On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 08:23:16AM -0400, Brion Swanson wrote:

> The solution seems to be to create two queues - one for local
> printing with the correct Canon driver and one for networked Windows
> (and other shared) printing with the Raw Queue.  This seems to have
> the right behavior, but it seems wrong that I should need to set up
> multiple queues to the same printer with different driver sets to
> get linux and Windows machines to print to it.

What I don't know is whether samba-sharing a print queue always means
that octet-stream will be needed.

Should we set octet-stream enabled by default?  Does anyone know what
bad consequences that might have?

Tim.
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